Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Italy and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Oppenheimer Analysis to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Sugar Minott. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Kinks,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Idris Muhammad,
Terrestrial Tones,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Blues Magoos,
Joey Negro,
The Walker Brothers,
Glambeats Corp.,
Brothers Johnson,
Mandrill,
Sight & Sound,
Darondo,
Gong,
Eli Mardock,
Fatback Band,
David McCallum,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Fuzztones,
Pylon,
Con Funk Shun,
Black Sheep,
The Invisible,
Echospace,
Toni Rubio,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Average White Band,
Mars,
Desert Stars,
Alton Ellis,
Sunsets and Hearts,
John Lydon,
Robert Görl,
Derrick May,
Aural Exciters,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Zeros,
Mark Hollis,
Dawn Penn,
Liliput,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lee Hazlewood,
Junior Murvin,
Piero Umiliani,
Maurizio,
Rosa Yemen,
Whodini,
The Moody Blues,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sällskapet,
Yusef Lateef,
The Music Machine,
Soft Cell,
The Standells,
The Electric Prunes,
MC5,
The Pop Group,
Moss Icon,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.